Anthony Bates Foundation

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Anthony Bates Foundation (ABF) brings life-saving heart screenings to the heart of your community - free of charge - but needs your donations to save more kids. Please help us save more lives through your tax-deductible donations to the Anthony Bates Foundation Cardiac Screening Program.

This year, July 31, 2017, marks the 17th Angel Day for Anthony. We also mark an ABF milestone of over 13,000 youth screened with over 1700 lives changed and/or saved. Plus, ABF Teams across the USA have screened approximately 600,000 lives due to the ABF Community Screening Training program.

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a leading killer of young people & athletes in this country. Many of these deaths could be prevented by heart screenings for children. ABF provides free and low cost heart screening events, which detect undiagnosed heart problems in approximately 12% of the young people screened. One of those could be your child or a child you know.

Here are some frightening facts about kids and heart disease:

Heart disease kills more children than any other disease; even childhood cancer. (3,498 per year; 9.5 per day - statistic found in 2016 NVST report) 12,500 children die each year from heart disease - 34.24 per day, or a whole classroom of children wiped out! (statistic found 2015 IOM report)One in 250 people have life-threatening HCM and most are unaware.ABF consistently finds 12% of the youth screened have hidden heart issues; half are life threatening.Out of 65 million youth in this country, over 3,250,000 youth are at risk a life threatening Sudden Cardiac Arrest from undetected heart problems.

And here's the welcome news about heart screenings:

Heart screenings detect problems like HCM in 12% - one in eight - of people screened.Half of the problems found can be considered life threatening - on in four - of the people screened.People with HCM can live long, healthy lives, with early diagnosis and care.With proper screening, we could save the lives of 10,000 children each year or more.ABF provides heart screenings, free of charge or low cost, to children across the country. We never turn someone away unable to pay our fees!

Here's what your donation can do:

$85 pays for a heart screening for one young person$190 pays for heart screenings for two young people$850 Premium Donation pays for ten heart screenings and can SAVE THE LIFE of that one person in ten who has a preventable heart problem. (++ see note)______any other amount can help with screenings, staff and administrative costs

The Anthony Bates Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization formed in 2002. We are dedicated to saving young lives through early detection of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM). The Anthony Bates Foundation is actively promoting public outreach programs through education and awareness for the need to provide heart screening events for our youth. We offer training for groups that would like to provide their own events or The Anthony Bates Foundation can coordinate events in your area. Our goal is to promote heart health education and awareness of HCM.

Through the tireless efforts of our staff and volunteers we have organized over 74 Cardiac Screening Days since 2001, across the USA. We have provided more than 13,250 free and low cost echocardiograms and ECG tests to young people. Each screening done at a hospital or cardiologist's office could cost a family as much as $1,600 and most insurance companies do not pay for preventative cardiac screenings for young people. Through our ABF screenings, as many as 12% of those screened have become aware of undiagnosed heart issues. Plus, our Community Screening training program has reached other parents and organizations interested in providing screenings in over 40 states, 4 countries in Europe and Australia.

"As parents, we want to do the right thing for our child's health, but who considers a child could have heart disease? Community Cardiac Screenings are a great opportunity for the life of your child."

Heart Screening Quest 2020 is intended to screen 1,000,000 (we are over half way there!) for youth by the outreach of our offering our Community Cardiac Screening Training program to people interested in saving the lives of youth.

Per Statistical data already stated, since Anthony's death in 2000, out of 112,000 to 212,500 who died, 106,000 died from HCM and may have been preventable. Only 15% of the youth that die are considered athletes. There are currently 65 million youth in our country and 5 - 10% are at risk of SCA – 3.25 to 6.5 million youth need your help!

Help prevent the heart break of losing a child to an undiagnosed cardiac malady by supporting the Anthony Bates Foundation's establishment of a nationwide heart screening program for all children.

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